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Deacon King Kong, a novel, James McBride

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Deacon King Kong, a novel, James McBride

Language

eng

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Literary text for sound recordings

fiction

Main title

Deacon King Kong

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Oclc number

1144997521

Responsibility statement

James McBride

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"In September 1969, a fumbling, cranky old church deacon known as Sportcoat shuffles into the courtyard of the Cause Houses housing project in south Brooklyn, pulls a .38 from his pocket, and in front of everybody shoots the project's drug dealer at point-blank range. The reasons for this desperate burst of violence and the consequences that spring from it lie at the heart of Deacon King Kong, James McBride's funny, moving novel and his first since his National Book Award-winning The Good Lord Bird. In Deacon King Kong, McBride brings to vivid life the people affected by the shooting: the victim, the African-American and Latinx residents who witnessed it, the white neighbors, the local cops assigned to investigate, the members of the Five Ends Baptist Church where Sportcoat was deacon, the neighborhood's Italian mobsters, and Sportcoat himself."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

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